FROM THIS EPISODE

City Controller Wendy Greuel and Councilman Eric Garcetti are two
liberal Democrats who want to be Mayor. They've done their best to
sound different without offering big ideas or a lot of specifics, but
they're setting records for campaign spending. Will they overcome
predictions of record low turnout? We look at the Mayor's race and the
rest of tomorrow’s ballot. Also, all those political mailers piling up
at your house? Where do they really come from? We look at the fine
print.

On our rebroadcast of today’s To the Point, the Dow and other stock-market indexes are setting records. Housing construction is up. But eight million people are unemployed and a smaller proportion of people own homes than a decade ago. Are we in for increased prosperity or bursting bubbles? We get a reality check on the economy.

Is your mailbox over-flowing? You're hardly the only one. It's not just political candidates, so-called independent action committees or political parties. Some of them are just, plain advertising, as KCRW producer Anna Scott reports.